Our job is to take you from zero to MVP as quickly as possible. Whether that means giving you a site designed to market your company or product, or that you’re looking to turn your startup idea into a reality, we will help you get positive cash flow quickly with the most features possible.
Give us a call today so we can show you why we’ll be the company you keep.
Co-Founder
Brian got his start with WordPress while he was stuck taming wallabies during an Austrailian walkabout. One day he got heatstroke and passed out in the middle of the desert. When he awoke, he found "BE THE WP" scrawled in the sand. Since then, all WordPress sites bow to his will.
Co-Founder
Jeff began his programming career as a hobo riding the rails. One day his train broke down in the hamlet of Bowling Green, KY. As it was being repaired, Jeff went out into the village and learned from the locals of a thing called "Ruby" and something else called "Rails". Since Jeff knew all about riding the rails, he figured this was right up his alley. Thirteen years of development and six years of Ruby and Rails later, he's still going strong and now only has to hop a train for fun.
Chief of Office Logistics & Project Management
Danielle got her start in the badlands of Texas during a largely unsuccessful attempt to re-create the events from her favorite spaghetti western. One night, camped out under the immense Texas sky, she heard the haunting call of the desert donkey. It spoke of order amid the chaos of modern life, and she realized that her real purpose on earth was to help people with their organization and management, to keep office supplies in stock, and to be the voice of reason in the whirling vortex of busy offices. Danielle, or "Chief in Charge of Stuff and Things", as she is known around here, is the master of mayhem, professor of "where's that thing?" and commander of crisis. She is unstoppable, just like her spirit animal, the desert donkey.
Senior Developer and Designer
Sharon started her journey into design and coding back in the day in the Texas Mountains. One peaceful morning she was perfecting her snowboarding skills and working out in the gym when the popcorn machine in the gym lobby suddenly exploded. In that moment in between the burpees, she had an epiphany and realized her passion was with PHP, kerning and CMYK instead of popcorn kernels, PRs and YMCAs. It's all been easy going since then and she's become an Olympian of coding and design.
Development Morality Enhancement Team
If there were ever a team more committed to a work/life balance, we have yet to find it. Whether it's a nuzzle on the hand to let us know it's time for a fetching break or a head resting on the lap to initiate an impromptu dance party, they are well-trained to... wait, are we training them?... or are they training us?... hmmmmm...
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Our eight guiding principles:
We put our clients first. Always. If a decision ever needs to be made between the happiness of our clients versus ourselves, we always give more weight to our clients. That doesn’t mean you can walk all over us; if you try we’ll definitely rickroll you.
We will always work hard to make your ideas happen, but when we’re done we’ll also stay in contact so you won’t be stuck without any support. If you choose to bring on a full-time team, we’ll consider it a job well done and we will get the new team up to speed on logistics and design decisions so that they can hit the ground running.
From pricing to deliverables, our clients have access to the full picture of where their project is and what is coming up. 24/7/365 Need to chat with us? We’re just a phone call away.
While developing software, rapid feedback is vitally important for keeping costs down, but it’s also important for keeping everyone on the same page. We practice continuous deployment which means that not only are there fewer bugs, but divergences from what the client expects and what we’re delivering are caught early on when they can be corrected faster.
A lot of technical jargon is inherent in what we do; there’s no avoiding it. It’s our responsibility to keep all of that from our clients. We talk to them in terms they can relate to and that they use in their business every day. It’s our job to learn their terminology, not the other way around.
We don’t do long-term contracts or NDAs or any other ridiculous stuff. Our contracts last no more than 2-weeks at a time. We’re honest and we’ve found that almost always, when you treat people fairly and honestly, they reciprocate. And for those that don’t? We have an amazing lawyer.
We don’t do any traditional marketing. We figure that if we’re doing our job right, our previous customers will do that for us; and for seven years, they have. We wouldn’t be where we are without them supporting us.
We allow our clients to completely change their minds after each contract period, and since our contracts are never more than 2 weeks long, our clients have the utmost in freedom and flexibility.
A lot of firms try to be Jacks and Janes of all trades. Unfortunately, for most people, their brains just can’t handle that level of programming diversity. Most people can be masters of about three programming languages before their skill set starts to degrade. The members of our team are either experts in PHP, Ruby or JavaScript. Additionally, each member is also in an intimate relationship with HTML and CSS. <3 <3 <3
Ruby is a programming language designed for readability and increased developer productivity.
How does this help our clients?
We can develop applications faster and with fewer errors.
Rails is a framework for developing web applications written in Ruby.
How does this help our clients?
We can leverage the hundreds of thousands of work-hours which have been contributed by the legion of developers to Rails and all of its supported packages. Rails was developed specifically to allow us to create rapid prototypes so that our clients can reach their goals faster.
The lingua franca of the web. Think of it like the skeleton for your application. Everything hangs off of your HTML.
How does this help our clients?
HTML5 is the newest version of the HTML specification and allows for richer media experiences without the need to fall back to plugin technologies like Flash. The end result? A better experience for your users.
JavaScript is the ubiquitous programming language of the web. Every web browser that matters, runs JavaScript.
How does this help our clients?
We can develop applications which have a much better UX than applications which do not incorporate JavaScript. This means more conversions and better engagement for you and your customers.
As Rails is to Ruby, Ember is to JavaScript. It is a framework designed specifically for developing web applications using JavaScript. When combined with Rails, they're a killer combination.
How does this help our clients?
Many times when an application is developed without JavaScript in mind, it can feel much more sluggish than it should. When combined with a JavaScript web framework like Ember, your users can zip through your site.
CSS is the technology that brings your applications to life. Adding colors, animations and more.
How does this help our clients?
By combining user interface designs from our cadre of talented designers with CSS 3, we're able to faithfully recreate even the smallest details of a designer's vision. This means that our clients end up with the final product that they were expecting all along.
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